Quote by Durga Chew-Bose Download Open image ““of learning young that having a hunch is, like so many female facets, both misery and boon.”” — Durga Chew-Bose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“If there are young ladies in the world at her time of life more dull of fancy and more careless of pleasing, I know… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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“When we are young, we take a certain pleasure in our infirmities. They seem so new, so rich! With age, they no longer surprise… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton” — Peggy Toney Horton Copy Share Image
“Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.” — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?” — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
“A woman carries her inner life—lugs it around or holds it in like fumes that both poison and bless her—while nourishing another’s inner life,… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“There’s strength in observing one’s miniaturization. That you are insignificant and prone to, and God knows, dumb about a lot. Because doesn’t smallness prime… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“When those fault lines inside of us quake on account of all that is built up and unkempt between two people in love—on account… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Feral rearranging. Letting form ferment. Letting form pass through you.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“There's a recording of Nina Simone's "Ain't Got No", where Simone, after listing all the things she doesn't have - a home, shoes, money,… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Nook people confuse emotional truth with other varieties of truth. They are a composite of the last person who complimented them and the next… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“There’s might too in the incomplete. In feeling fractional. A failure to carry out is perhaps no failure at all, but rather a minced… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Even then, when time decelerates and the relative importance of our lives, of our hurry, undergoes a sudden, essential audit; even then, our heart… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Like the hurt we cause when we've been enduring too much in silence and have started to trust our own fixed claim that everything… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Essays that do not concern these directors’ works but are addressed to them—in spirit, tone, wash—because these directors have, over time, caused me to… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“The genius of the word is that it’s more of an expression than a word.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image